U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Myers, John (1765-1835) ------------------------------------------------------------------- Aler's History of Martinsburg and Berkeley County, West Virginia by F. Vernon Aler, 1888 Printed for the Author by The Mail Publishing Company, Hagerstown, MD. CHAPTER VIII. Historical Pen Sketches of the Early Residents of Berkeley County by the late Hon. Chas. James Faulkner. Pages 89-90, JOHN MYERS. Born in the County of Berkeley, about the year 1765, and lived all his life in the mountainous districts of the county. He was a man of striding appearance, about six feet, four inches in height, with no superfluous flesh, and with a countenance indicating great natural intelligence and intrepid daring. His whole life was spent in hunting, bears, deer and other game of the forest. He was universally known by the name of "Hunter John Myers." The chase was his pastime and his means of support. His rifle was unerring in its aim, and rarely 1 did a wolf, bear or deer escape him. There was a savage wilderness in his features, which indicated very clearly how little he had mingled in the haunts of civilized life. If he was not the original from which the novelist Cooper painted his celebrated character of Natty Bumppo, or Leather-Stocking, he has by the force of imagination delineated with extraordinary accuracy the hunter of Berkeley. Myers, like Leather-Stocking, stands half way between savage and civilized life; a man with all the freshness of nature about him, and whose like is only to be seen at this day, amidst the wild and unbroken forests of the west. He died about the year 1835. ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Berkeley County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/berkeley/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------